The specialized land court in Mato Grosso, Brazil: Achievements and challenges in collective land conflicts
ADRIANA SANT’ANNA CONINGHAN, BASTIAAN PHILIP REYDON, RODRIGO CONINGHAM DE MIRANDA, JOSÉ DE ARIMATÉA BARBOSA, VITOR HUGO PAULA SOUSA JUNIOR, VITOR BUKVAR FERNANDES
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the protagonist role that the Judiciary Branch can have in Land Governance since legal structure is one of the axes for assessing land governance, according to the analytical model developed by the World Bank. The article will show some of the experiences of the Judicial Branch of the State of Mato Grosso / Brazil, linked to the performance of the specialized court in land complex conflicts involving large numbers of people, as well as the experience of the commission for land issues. It will have the next steps: Show the main steps that a conflict law suit takes at the Land Court or at the commission; Classify a collection of cases to better understand rural collective land ownership conflicts; Present main challenges and some best practices based on solutions obtained with the participation of government agencies.
Event: Land Governance in an Interconnected World_Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty_2018
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